Finding and listening to records.
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7-Up! The Half Year in Review
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Hard to believe, but we’ve already held fourteen all-vinyl listening sessions in 2026!
The Hi-Fi Village sessions are the official lab and test kitchen of the Record Lung Substack, equal...
Underthink It: A Hi-Fi Village Playlist
A hot-shit quintet of Hi-Fi Villagers got together for a night of unusually bluesy grooves, beyond-belief ballads, and instinctual follow-on spins. The object lesson when it’s your turn to spin a record: Not only don’t overthink it—underthi...
My Life in the Bush of Queen: A Hi-Fi Village Playlist
It was an evening of round-robin zonkers, a pound cake of gorgeously arranged jazz mood swings (and swinging moods), with a sprinkling of inspiration from our “Outrageous ’80s” cover wall (see below), which inspired some XTCstatic beats and...
Inside the Hot Club of New York
Pictured: Hot Club of New York and its founder Matthew Rivera, spectacled and facing the vintage music.
At Record Lung, we love records. So when we meet fellow analog travelers in this deracinated digital age—desperados obsessed with findi...
Wha' happened?: A Record Lung Roundup
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Whether you’ve been following Record Lung from the start or just recently joined our quixotic fandango, we’d like to THANK YOU for showing up and involving yourself in our ridiculous schemes. We’re on the cusp of...
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Correspondent for VANITY FAIR. The guy who wrote the Jann Wenner bio. Editor of Record Lung. Step into my office.
Franz Nicolay is a musician and writer living in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Writer.
Everything all at once
Urban planner / professor / jazz junkie
Bioavoidant
Composer, musician; visual artist, photographer; listener, observer, aesthetic explorer; radio host/producer on WNYC FM 1987—2015.
in NC
I don't set out to be odd. Apparently I'm odd. Seems to work.
Radio and record labels and reissues for better or for worse
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